Ephesians 2:1 - 2:22 | ASV

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¹And you `did he make alive,' when ye were dead through your trespasses and sins,

²wherein ye once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the powers of the air, of the spirit that now worketh in the sons of disobedience;

³among whom we also all once lived in the lust of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest:--

⁴but God, being rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us,

⁵even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace have ye been saved),

⁶and raised us up with him, and made us to sit with him in the heavenly `places', in Christ Jesus:

⁷that in the ages to come he might show the exceeding riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus:

⁸for by grace have ye been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, `it is' the gift of God;

⁹not of works, that no man should glory.

¹⁰For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God afore prepared that we should walk in them.

¹¹Wherefore remember, that once ye, the Gentiles in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that which is called Circumcision, in the flesh, made by hands;

¹²that ye were at that time separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of the promise, having no hope and without God in the world.

¹³But now in Christ Jesus ye that once were far off are made nigh in the blood of Christ.

¹⁴For he is our peace, who made both one, and brake down the middle wall of partition,

¹⁵having abolished in the flesh the enmity, `even' the law of commandments `contained' in ordinances; that he might create in himself of the two one new man, `so' making peace;

¹⁶and might reconcile them both in one body unto God through the cross, having slain the enmity thereby:

¹⁷and he came and preached peace to you that were far off, and peace to them that were nigh:

¹⁸for through him we both have our access in one Spirit unto the Father.

¹⁹So then ye are no more strangers and sojourners, but ye are fellow-citizens with the saints, and of the household of God,

²⁰being built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the chief corner stone;

²¹in whom each several building, fitly framed together, groweth into a holy temple in the Lord;

²²in whom ye also are builded together for a habitation of God in the Spirit.

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